Spreading Joy through Musical Meals with Gabrielle Reyes

Known as One Great Vegan, Gabrielle Reyes is an award-winning singer, actress, chef, cookbook author, TV personality, and tours the world + live-streams everyday teaching others how to create her musical meals.  She is blessed to get to share her favorite plant-based and flavor-full recipes plus tips on how to create vibrant dishes through music and songs while helping her followers heal their bodies and feed their souls! She currently hosts The Colorful Home Cooking Show and partners with her favorite brands to combine vegan culinary expertise with her passion for musical performance and creates entertaining + educational content featuring catchy recipe videos, easy kitchen guidance, mental + physical health coaching, and of course, mouthwatering meals.  Recently she has been featured on: Oprah, Food Network, The Today Show, Access Hollywood, The New York Times, Buzzfeed Tasty, CBS, Delish, Tastemade, Yahoo News, Good Morning Texas, and The FeedFeed.  Sing your song. Do your dance. Speak your truth!  For more information, please visit these links:Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/gabrielle-reyes-784991171/Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/onegreatveganWebsite - https://www.onegreatvegan.com/ HIGHLIGHTS 02:44 - Growing around good food and musical theater 03:35 - Waking up and becoming a vegan  14:46 - Benefits of switching to a plant-based diet 18:20 - Sheet pan dinners are the key  36:57 - Finding an audience in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic  48:09 - Challenges of being an actor  57:00 - You have nothing to prove because you are who you are  58:22 - New cookbooks and inclusion in the official Tiktok recipes  1:00:30 - Connect with Gabrielle QUOTES 15:30 - Gabrielle: "It's an overall experience. I mean my mind is clearer. I love my life better. I mean, I found my husband. You know, like, I'm not saying going vegan will make you fall in love, but going vegan will remove an aspect of despair and sadness and cruelty from your life. Like you don't have to partake in death."  25:44 - Koya: "I love that you share the tough parts too because I think people see the highlight reel and they think oh I wish I could have that but they don't see the arguments, the frustration, the times when it's not cool that you have to get through in order to find your flow." 27:49 - Gabrielle: "The main key point to going vegan, staying vegan, number one, is as I said, seasoning. But the main thing is to keep it simple. Don't try to complicate it. Realistically work with what time you have. If you have 20 minutes a week to cook, you can still make it happen."  48:32 - Gabrielle: "The job is auditioning, all the time. You got to learn to love it. You got to learn to just be a hundred percent okay with being uncomfortably honest. And, if you can do that, practice breaking down to whatever your truth is."  50:34 - Gabrielle: "I want to just exist in my truth, and I have such faith that if I continue to share my truth and help other people share their truth, that I'll spread my truth to exactly the right amount of people that want and need to hear it." 57:33 - Gabrielle: "The only reason we exist is to go hard in our dreams. The only reason we exist is to bring a passion and possibilities to this world and to share it with others." Please leave a five-star review for the Get Loved Up Podcast. When you leave that review, please take a screenshot and email me at koya@koyawebb.com, and I’ve got a little gift for you. Your thoughts light up Koya’s soul, and it helps continue to bring on great guests. To hear more about Koya Webb and Get Loved Up episodes, please visit her website at https://koyawebb.com/.